Notable Achievements
Keck faculty have achieved a number of “firsts” for the school:
- 1969 – development of the first academic Department of Emergency Medicine in the nation
- 1970 – discovery of the first cancer-causing gene or oncogene
- 1972 – establishment of Los Angeles County’s Cancer Surveillance Program — one of the largest and most scientifically productive population-based cancer registries in the world
- 1993 – development of the world’s first double lobar lung transplant from living-related donors
- 2002 – development of the first retinal implant, as part of revolutionary research to restore sight to those blinded by degenerative retinal diseases
- 2010 – development of HIV-resistant blood stem cells
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